Self-Defense in an Imperfect World

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-8

  Brown, Chris ^a  

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EID: 34248063141     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2003.tb00412.x     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars, 2nd ed. (New York: Basic Books, 1992), presents this distinction with great clarity.
2. See David C. Hendrickson, “Towards Universal Empire: The Dangerous Quest for Absolute Security,” World Policy Journal (Fall 2002), pp. 1–10.
3. For a judicious recent discussion, see Michael Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
4. See the strong condemnation contained in UN Security Council Resolution 487, June 19, 1981.
5. There is a large literature on the Kosovo case. See, e.g., Ken Booth, ed., The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimensions (London: Frank Cass, 2000).
6. See Robert Fisk, “The Dishonesty of This So-Called Dossier,” Independent, September 25, 2002, for an uncritical presentation of the charge that “we” have killed half a million Iraqi children; available at www.commondreams.org/views02/0925–03.htm. The British government has vigorously contested this interpretation.
7. see, e.g., Tony Blair, “Prime Minister's Iraq Statement to Parliament,” September 24, 2002; available at www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page5.asp.
8. For a general discussion of this issue, see Chris Brown, Sovereignty, Rights and Justice (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002).